Arcanum - do not inhale

We have heard a lot of bizarre excuses for a game being delayed in
the past, but Vivendi Universal Interactive have just taken the
biscuit by claiming that a batch of copies of their role-playing
game Arcanum (which is due for release on Friday) arrived at their
distributor in the back of a truck full of toxic chemicals. Now, we
don't really believe them either, but the photographic evidence
certainly seems to bear out their unlikely story, showing
shrink-wrapped boxes marked Arcanum in front of a ramshackle pile
of bright orange barrels labelled "toxic" and "harmful by
inhalation and if swallowed".

We still suspect that this is some kind of odd marketing ploy, but
regardless of whether or not Universal really did refuse to accept
the delivery in question, the good news is that the game is still
expected to appear in stores in the UK on Friday. So presumably at
least some copies of the game came through without any toxic
encounters. Oh dear...